BOX SCORE
BOX SCORE (PDF)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – RBI from senior slugger
Drew Lee and senior first baseman
Michael Bottoms put Morehead State up 2-0 after one inning, but the Eagle bats could only muster three hits the rest of the game and fell to #13 Louisville 7-2 Tuesday afternoon.
#J.D. Ashbrook# got plunked to lead off the game, advanced to third on a
Cameron Flynn, and scored on a Lee single to right field to give the Eagles a 1-0 lead before an out had been recorded. The RBI was Lee’s team leading fifth of the season. Flynn then scored on a Bottoms fielder’s choice and MSU held a 2-0 lead after the top of the first.
Sophomore
Tyler Hieneman, making his first start of the season, made quick work of the Cardinals in the first two innings allowing just one hit, a seeing eye single from Andrew Clark.
Hieneman continued to roll until UL got on the scoreboard with an unearned run in the bottom of the fourth. After Ryan Wright walked, Cardinal catcher Jeff Arnold looped a double down the right field line. Wright advanced to third on the play, and was able to score after Luke Bainer’s throw from right missed the cut-off man.
Hieneman got out of a jam again in the fifth. Singles from Drew Haynes and Adam Duvall and a walk to Wright left the bags juiced with two out. Hieneman then got Phil Wunderlich to pop out harmlessly to shortstop to end the inning.
Hieneman came in to start the sixth, getting Arnold to pop out to Travis Redmon at second and giving up a single to Stewart Ijames. Flynn then relieved Hieneman, giving up a single to left to Cade Stallings that moved Ijames to third. Flynn got Haynes to tap back to the mound for the second out of the inning, but Ijames scored on the play. Flynn then got Josh Richmond to pop out to short to end the inning.
Hieneman’s pitched 5.1 stellar innings on the day allowing just one earned run on six hits with two strikeouts. Hieneman frustrated the Cardinal lineup throughout his innings, getting numerous harmless pop-outs to the infield. In fact, the sophomore hurler got just one ground out on the day while forcing 13 fly outs or pop outs.
“(Hieneman) did everything we asked him to do,” said head coach Jay Sorg about his sophomore southpaw. “He mixed up his pictures, threw a lot of strikes and was able to keep one of the best hitting teams in the country off balance.”
Louisville grabbed the lead in the bottom of the seventh on an Andrew Clark home-run to deep right field driving home Duvall who had doubled to lead off the inning. The Cardinals put three more on in the inning but relievers
Hunter Hewitt and
Cody Gibson were able to scramble and get out of the inning without allowing more damage.
UL struck again in the eighth, this time with Wright lacing a homerun to left after Gibson had put Haynes and Clark on via a walk and an intentional walk.
Hieneman was the high point for the Eagles (2-3) putting in a quality start in his first nod of the season, but the MSU bats couldn’t get anything going and that was the difference in the game.
“What we are best at we just didn’t do well today,” said Sorg. “We just couldn’t sustain anything offensively.”
Game Notes: #J.D. Ashbrook
and Taylor Davis# had four-game hit streaks snapped. Cameron Flynn extended his hit streak to four games and leads the team with a .429 batting average on the season.
